All Commissioning articles – Page 558
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NewsTarrant will host Challenge gameshow
Challenge has recruited Chris Tarrant to front a major new primetime gameshow format made by ITV Productions.
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NewsSky One pours millions into bestseller dramas
Sky One is investing its biggest sum yet in original drama, pumping more than£10m into adapting a trio of bestselling books.
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NewsLittle Airplane flies into UK
Little Airplane Productions, the US kids indie behind Nickelodeon pre-school show Wonder Pets, is opening a new London studio.
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Weekend gets second year
BBC2 has recommissioned Something for the Weekend for an extra year, taking it to 6 April 2009. The Sunday-morning magazine show is produced by Princess Productions and was ordered by commissioning executive Carla-Maria Lawson. The BBC claims to pull in nearly twice the proportion of men aged 16 to 34 ...
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Fresh cookery for BBC2
BBC2 has lined up two new primetime cookery shows from Optomen. Newcomer Valentine Warner will lead the backlash against imported food in What to Eat Now: Autumn. The 6 x 30-minute series shows how to make the best use of natural ingredients when they are in season. Lion TV is ...
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Recommission for My Spy
Cartoon Network has commissioned a second series of live-action comedy My Spy Family for its Boomerang channel. The 20 x 22-minute series is a co-production between Cartoon Network parent Turner Broadcasting and Kindle Entertainment, the indie set up by former ITV kids boss Anne Brogan. The series will air from ...
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Mister Maker gets more
CBeebies has commissioned two more series of RDF's hit kids series Mister Maker. The presenter-fronted arts and crafts show, aimed at four to six-year-olds, combines live action, CGI and animation techniques to bring arts and crafts to life. The 20 x 15- minute series will be produced by RDF-owned The ...
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FeaturesEUREKA!: Captain Mack
Fireback joint managing director John Bullivant on why boys needed a rocket-riding hero.
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C4 lines up two more extreme body docs
Channel 4 is to continue its fascination with people with extreme physiques with a follow-up to ratings success Half-Ton Mum and a series in which Balls of Steel star Mark Dolan spends time with the world's smallest man and tallest woman, writes Robin Parker.Half-Ton Dad tells the story of a ...
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NewsNat Geo Int orders gambling and green inventions series
National Geographic Channels International will follow two renowned green inventors as they help others adopt a cleaner lifestyle in an eight-part series by Renegade Pictures.
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NewsC4 orders US gender war format
September Films has won its biggest commission to date from Channel 4, an eight-part battle of the sexes reality series based on US format When Women Rule the World.
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NewsITV cooks up restaurant show for NBC
ITV's US division is to produce a new restaurant-based reality series for US network NBC featuring British Michelin star chef Marco Pierre White.
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NewsDawkins tackles Darwin for C4
Channel 4 is lining up new documentaries from biologist Richard Dawkins and investigative journalist Jon Ronson as part of its specialist factual slate for spring/summer.
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NewsNew Freud drama-doc in production
Factual indies Off The Fence Productions and Psychology News Productions have signed a one-year co-production deal for two TV projects, including a film tracing how Sigmund Freud fled the Nazis.
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NewsTrinny and Susannah to conduct UK body census
Style experts Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine are fronting a three part series for ITV1 billed as a body census for modern Britain.
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FeaturesCommissioning Focus: CBeebies plays for the big time
The ‘fewer, bigger, better' policy applies at CBeebies as much as anywhere in the BBC, with£10m plus, 100-episode orders going out to indie producers.
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NewsBBC2 gets cooking
BBC2 has lined up two new primetime cookery shows focused on seasonal cooking and healthy Chinese cuisine.
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NewsHollyoaks to host T4 music show
Bands including The Guillemots and One Night Only are to perform on the set of Hollyoaks for a T4 music special that Channel 4 is considering turning into a returning format.
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BBC1 to recall war diaries of the ‘Polish Anne Frank'
BBC1 is to tell the story of a Polish war victim dubbed 'the forgotten Anne Frank'.
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NewsBBC Switch to take on teen problems
The BBC is to tackle controversial issues facing young people in a current affairs show that will form part of its teen strand Switch.